Human Beings? Who needs them?

Why would Pinocchio want to become a real live boy? Here are a few examples taken from a recent edition of the London Times illustrating the unattractive side of being human: A woman sent herself threatening text messages’ using her estranged husband’s mobile in an attempt to get him blamed. A father of four was told by the Child Support Agency that he had fathered a son by a woman he had never met 15 years after having a vasectomy. And an 84 year old former town mayor has been sentenced to five years in prison for raping five young girls. He told them that no one would ever believe them because he was a man of standing in the community. And I could go on. You might well have personal experience of anti-social behaviour. Does God not despair? Would it not be better if He had made us less than human? In the same edition Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi in the UK, said that “God does not want us to cease to be human, for if He did, He would not have created us” I agree whole-heartedly with that sentiment. When God created Adam He made him in His own image and when He created Eve He made her different yet the same. The intention was that they would live in perfect bliss in the Garden of Eden but “self” had other ideas. From that time on conflict instead of harmony was the norm. With the coming of Jesus into the world we have the complete man, the second Adam who was at peace with His heavenly father and with men- yet there were some who went after him. Some just can’t cope with the perfect person; such is the woeful state of humanity. Having made us in the image of God He has not changed His mind. He wants us to know Him. The Son of God came to be the Son of Man and being like this Jesus is nothing but good. He came and clothed Himself in our humanity in order that we might be more like Him. Don’t just look at the newspapers; look at the man or woman who is being transformed before your very eyes by the power of God in Christ, the chief of men. In a strange kind of way God wants human beings and we need Him. Human beings? Who needs them? We do, when they are like Christ.

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